A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- The computer your viewing this on was brought to you by a gay man.
- Want to date like it’s 1938? Here’s a handy guide!
- The long (and quite technical) history of the espresso machine.
- The very first drinking song discovered?
- The mystery of Dolly Madison’s red dress.
- Were nuns too sexy in the Middle Ages?
- For your own safety, stay out of the kitchen!
- Giggle water and petting parties: Slang of the 1920s.
- A great new exhibit in NYC features the complicated history of activism.
- Thoughts on Badu, Simone, and the black female body.
- Thanks to The Pill, women are having fewer abortions.
- The women of Watergate.
- David Halperin reports on the straight media’s annual state-of-the-gay report.
- Just in time for summer – The history of the swimsuit.
- New study sheds light on women and masterbation.